Best places: Toy museums in Japan

Huge store for the Gundam anime franchise offering a vast range of mech action figures, kits & more.

Collection spanning teddy bears & traditional dolls to retro console games & classic Japanese cars.

Original Charles Schulz drawings, a gallery of Peanuts characters & make-your-own-Snoopy workshops.

👍👍 A little off the beaten path but definitely worth the trip. Get off at Koro station and follow the signs along the way. Amazingly friendly staff - the owner of the museum in particular, Mr Inoue. Although my Japanese isn’t very good his passion for what he does shows, and it’s clear it’s a labor of...

Vintage & modern toys showcased in a castle-inspired museum with play areas & interactive displays.

Train museum with model trains from a 6,000-strong collection moving through realistic dioramas.

👍👍 We had a good time here. The two ladies showed us how to play. One even used a translator machine to explain how the toys are played. We bought a guessing book for 700 yen which uses binary theory. I think The ancient civilisation generations are more intelligent than us cos nowadays we rely more on...

👍👍 もともとは観光地巡りのついでにマンホールカードを貰うために訪れました。 ただカードを貰うだけというのも悪いなぁっと展示物をみていくことに。 これが予想を裏切って大変面白く満足度の高い施設でした。 もともとは日本最古の円形校舎だったものをリフォームして展示施設として流用しているみたいですが、フィギュア...

Unassuming showcase of retro toys, cars & memorabilia, including a full-scale recreated city scene.

Displays of vintage dolls & mechanical toys fill this nostalgic museum, alongside musical exhibits.

Quaint museum with a vast display of toys, from traditional German dolls to hand-cranked automata.

Nostalgic museum displaying a private collection of antique & vintage toys, including tin robots.

👍 道の駅センザキッチン併設の子どもが遊べる素敵な施設です。 木の温もり溢れるおもちゃの数々で、いつまで遊ぶんだ？というくらい楽しめます。 唯一残念なところは、施設の方がおもちゃの遊び方とかをあれこれ説明したり(子どもの発想で好きに遊ばせたらいい)、いろんな制約が多く感じました。

Intimate, nostalgic museum for 19th- & 20th-century Japanese tin toys, with a small store.

Thousands of action figures, dinosaur models & fantasy creatures, plus model-making workshops.

This museum displays hundreds of stuffed teddy bears in an antique house with a cafe & gift shop.

👍👍 Visited at 11:00 on weekdays. I was looking forward to it because it was popular for sightseeing in Takayama and it was a free paper. Admission by paying 700 yen for adults. Rather than enjoying the retro atmosphere of the Showa era, the main was a rare space where you can enjoy a lot of NES and ol...

👍👍 Absolutely impressive museum where are gathered more than 3000 figurines from anime of all periods. The people owning the museum are really sweet and passionate. Some figurines are placed in beautiful hand-crafted environments made by the owner himself. We discussed for a while about figurines, anim...

👍👍 木の温もりと、精密に作られた、からくりのおもちゃ、むかしながらの工芸品、懐かしいと思えるような昔遊びと沢山楽しめました。見て終わりだと思いましたが、触って遊べる、音にも癒される等、とても有意義な時間を、大人と子供と、一緒に楽しめましたよ。

Vast collection of toys, from Edo-period games to robot figurines, plus a Thomas Edison exhibit.